Israel Matzav

Awesome: Iranian Revolutionary Guard now heads OPEC

How's this for letting the bear guard the honey? A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has become the head of OPEC - the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Summary: It’s not every day when I high-ranking official of a revolutionary Islamist group that seeks world revolution, wiping Israel off the map, the widespread use of terrorism, and the destruction of the United States becomes head of the world’s most powerful energy organization on whose supplies America is dependent.

Rostam Ghasemi is a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and runs one of its big military-industrial operations. In other words, he makes arms some of which are sent to Iraq to kill Americans. He has just been appointed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be Iran’s oil minister. Ghasemi, an engineer, has been personally sanctioned by the United States and EU because of his involvement in Iran’s nuclear program.

This is the man who will now head the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC), which sets the prices and production levels for oil Why? Because in October it became Iran’s turn to choose that person. Iran is second only to Saudi Arabia as an oil exporter. Iran’s interests are to get prices as high as possible and thus hold down production levels when possible.

What could go wrong?

Shabbat Shalom everyone.

Labels: Iranian Revolutionary Guard, OPEC

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:57 PM